Meet the Team

Brooke has been a founder, co-founder, or early employee of six arts & media startups and has a track record for growth. Highlights from her 30+ years in entertainment include starring on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray. She spent three years on the roster of Amy Poehler’s Upright Citizens Brigade and played a serial killer on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. During her tenure at Transcendence Theatre Company, she worked in marketing & publicity, front-of-house management, design & branding, casting, ticket sales, event planning, assistant stage management, community outreach & service, merchandise sales, and arts education. Brooke also handled publicity for Nickelodeon’s Goosebumps and Lily Tomlin’s The Magic School Bus. Artistic Director for Sonoma Arts Live, a theatre company. Founder, Sonoma Laughfest. NYU Tisch School of the Arts: Acting, lighting design, and advanced costume design under Tony Award winner Gregg Barnes (including work on the original Broadway production of Side Show and the reimagining of the iconic Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular), wardrobe supervisor under Tony Award winners Beowulf Boritt and Marcia Milgrom Dodge. Brooke is a certified Rainbowdance practitioner, which is an early childhood intervention for children who missed critical learning windows.

Angelina Burnett is a television writer/producer, and a community organizer. Recently, she is wrote a film about the friendship between Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn for Lifetime, Patsy & Loretta. Formerly, she was a Co-Executive Producer on AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire, having also written for NatGeo’s Genius, NBC’s Hannibal, FX’s The Americans, and Starz’s Boss, among others. She was on staff of the ‘08 Obama campaign as the Nevada Border State Coordinator and has been organizing ever since. Angelina is a co-founder of Western Organizing Workshop, a founding board member of Dorrance Dance, and a board member of both the Writers Guild of America – West, and the WGAw PAC.

Tori O’Neill, Board Secretary

Tori O'Neill’s career spans multiple facets of the events and hospitality industry across multiple countries.

After graduating Cum Laude from SDSU, she took an Senior Event Manager position with Enterprise Events Group, a 3rd party event logistics agency that helps corporations develop their internal/external conferences and incentive trips. While traveling across the world, she has helped her tech clients plan successful programs for 550 - 2200 attendees and overseeing budgets as high as $10 million.

Before planning multi-million dollar events for top global companies, Tori was the Event Coordinator with Adrenaline Lacrosse. With this company, she helped plan several professional high school recruiting tournaments by arranging the hotel, transportation and activities for over 80 recruiters from universities across the US & Canada. Next, she was Australia and New Zealand bound for the Accor Hotel properties as a Restaurant Supervisor and then Restaurant Manager. She finished out her time in NZ as the General Manger of TriBeCa, which was consistently voted into the top 25 restaurants of New Zealand. After returning to Northern California, she joined the team at Sheraton Sonoma County - Petaluma as Conference Services Manager. She helped clients plan large multi-day events, including the renown local Artisan Cheese Festival.

Eric Jackson, Board Vice President

Graduate, University of Michigan, Musical Theatre. Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein (original cast). Tour: The Book of Mormon, Dreamgirls, Ragtime, Chicago, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: Finian's Rainbow (Irish Repertory Theater). Performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Regional: Westchester Broadway Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Maine State Music Theatre, Weston Playhouse, and Pioneer Theatre. Television: As the World Turns, Sex and the City, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Film: Romance and Cigarettes, Two Week’s Notice.

In arts education: co-founder and instructor of The Theatre Mafia, workshops and masterclasses in New York City with the Broadway Student Lab, Broadway Artists Alliance, and the Broadway Classroom, guest instructor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham and Siena Heights University. While in New York City, Eric co-develop the now licensed Finian's Rainbow, Jr. and was director for the staged reading of the new musical A Whole Lot of Teeth. His other directing credits include High School Musical at the JCC, Bye Bye Birdie at the Ann Arbor Civic Theatre as well as Sweet Charity and Eleemosynary at The University of Michigan.

Transcendence Theatre Company, 2011-2017: directing, performing, costume design, casting and hiring, developing the Internship and Apprentice Program, participating in the Arts and Education programs, leading Community Outreach Events, conceiving of original productions, and participating in marketing and publicity. After being voted as Person to Watch by BroadwayWorld SF for his work with Transcendence Theatre Company, Eric developed and became head of the theater company’s props department and wardrobe department.